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Mercora Music Search (widget): Mercora MusicSearch is the gateway to an amazingly immersive music discovery experience. Music lovers enjoy the ability to instantly listen to full-length songs from a collection of over 3 million unique tracks and over 200,000 unique artists that spans all music genres. Use this handy widget to search the Mercora...; Tags: Mercora, Music, Mercora MusicSearch; Software downloads 2007-08-01
Images: Mercora's 'M': Mercora's new M subscription service will wirelessly stream music to smart phones for $49.99 a year.; Tags: Smart phones, Mercora, subscription service, smart phone, music, telephone; Image galleries 2006-09-25

CD sales drop, digital music jumps in 1st half '07: CD sales drop, digital music jumps in 1st half '07We're Examples WhyQuality is junk, prices are too high, and DRM is ridiculously restrictive.Artistic creativity nowadays is especially lacking. Most claims to sales for modern "artists" are their scandals, not any musical creativity.Good talented artists like The Corrs and Enya...; Tags: Sales strategy, Digital media, CD, CD Sales Drop, digital music; Discussion threads 2007-07-06
Web 2.0's legacy: The startup Petri dish: The legacy of Web 2.0 is on parade in New York City--a never-ending stream of startups armed with PowerPoints, infomercials and terms like long tail, mashups and mindshare. One exec used four Web 2.0 buzzwords in a sentence. Bottom line: Its...; Tags: Web 2.0, Web, Petri, AlwaysOn; Blog posts 2007-01-31
eMusic hears sweet sound of success in Europe: eMusic hears sweet sound of success in EuropeAnother music service...Mercora-ever heard of them? They've also got a huge online music catalog, and it's LEGAL. They're going to do big things in '07.; Tags: EMusic; Discussion threads 2007-01-25

MobileTechRoundup show #71, Mobius and Nokia Open Studio: Listen here (MP3, 34MB, 37 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS ...; Tags: Nokia Open Studio, podcast, MobileTechRoundup; Blog posts 2006-10-04
DEMOFall 2006 coverage: Dan Farber has put together extensive, company-by company coverage of DEMOfall 2006 on his blog. Weve collected all of the ZDNet blog coverage of the event here. Day 2 included a number of excellent ideas to address information security issues like a better way to digitally sign documents from DSI,...; Tags: DEMO, DemoFall 2006; Blog posts 2006-09-29
Musicians, songwriters: Ruling rocks: Musicians, songwriters: Ruling rocksIf it makes you feel betteryou get branded a sellout for signing with a greedy money grubbing price fixing mega corporation label as well, which depresses the consumers bottomline on the worth of your canned talents, not that I've got love for Grokster, old Napster, and other...; Tags: Sales strategy, Software Pirate, CD, music; Discussion threads 2005-06-27
Music sharing that's free and legal: Music sharing that's free and legalSounds just like Napster wasI don't see how this any differnt techically but to conform to the law they broadcast the songs digitally instead of broadcasting the song is available. The end result is the same in both cases. Now this is funny. It will...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RIAA, listener, music; Discussion threads 2004-11-08